Ever since I've been reading the Strange Aeons AP, something has been bugging at me every time a picture of Lowls shows up. I swear that I've seen him before, but until this morning I couldn't place where. Then, quite suddenly, it hit me.
Count Lowls looks familiar because he is, in fact, secretly a traveler from another world, and more importantly, from another time!
That's right! Lowls is secretly, in fact, none other than Guru Melchior from Chrono Trigger! And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for my misspent youth!
Seriously though. Just look at the evidence!
Clearly this man is no longer fooling any of us. Gentlebeings, the prosecution rests!
How many secret identities are there? The art for Malin the Prophet, the android "bonus character" for Iron Gods in the back of AP #100, is clearly modeled on Roy Batty, the replicant from Blade Runner.
Hugo Strange.
He's Doctor Hugo Strange.
Hugo Strange.
He's Doctor Hugo Strange.
That is what I see EVERY TIME I see him illustrated
Hugo Strange.
He's Doctor Hugo Strange.
Exactly that.
I guess it's the glasses.
I saw him more as a Simon Voltaire (praise be to Studio Foglio and all things therein) type when I first spied his artwork in part 1